A letter from the founder
Built with reverence.
I was born and raised Catholic in India.
My two best friends growing up were Hindu and Muslim, and another close friend was Buddhist. So I spent my childhood in churches, temples, viharas, and mosques, and I was welcome in all of them. I learned early that devotion is sincere in every language it speaks. Today, two very close Hindu friends back home help with my old parents, alongside that same Muslim best friend.
Engineering brought me to the United States, where I made my first Jewish friends and saw a faith that lives around the dinner table as much as in the synagogue.
It started with my mother
Gloree, our Christian app, came first. I built it for my mother. She is in her late eighties now, and she is the most devout person I know. Getting to church has become hard for her, but her faith never faded. I wanted to bring the church to her. Separated by a thousand miles, I used what I had: engineering, and a son’s wish to keep her spiritual home close every day.
While listening to her, I kept thinking about my friends. My Hindu friends and their pujas. My Buddhist friends and their practice. My Jewish friends and their festivals. If technology could help my mother keep her faith close, it could help them too. Not one watered-down app for everyone, but a complete app dedicated entirely to each unique tradition.
For each app I read the foundational texts, sat with scholars and practitioners, and listened to the people who actually pray. I built, then asked devout users “is this right?” and rebuilt when they said no. That became Religix: Bhaktee, Gloree, Bodhee, and Yehudee. Four apps, built by the same hands, with the same care.
My learning journey continues
I grew up going to my Muslim best friend’s house every day, the way he came to mine. Some of my warmest childhood memories are of grilling on the balcony or the terrace with him and his aapa (older sister), of the Eids we celebrated, and of the mosques we visited together. But growing up next to a faith is not the same as knowing it intimately enough to build for it. Translating a tradition honestly into a digital space takes time, humility, and care. I am still on that journey with Islam, learning, absorbing, asking. I won’t cut corners. I won’t get it wrong. An app for Islam will come only when it can carry the accuracy and respect it deserves. Or not at all.
Our vow
Tradition-authentic. Real liturgy, real calendars, real scholarship. Festival dates are checked against canonical sources, never approximated.
Sacred privacy. Your practice is between you and the divine. No data harvesting, no selling, no surveillance dressed up as features.
Crafted beauty. Original devotional art, native typography for every script, and interfaces that feel like reverence rather than software.